Transfer and expression of the interferon gamma gene in human endothelial cells inhibits vascular smooth muscle cell growth in vitro

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-8

  Stopeck, Alison T ^a   Vahedian, Mahmood ^a,b   Williams, Stuart K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endothelial cells; Gamma interferon; Gene transfer; Smooth muscle cells

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON;

ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CELL DIVISION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0031019857     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0963-6897(96)00183-2     Document Type: Article

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